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This page contains an archive of the Global Newsletter summaries and the weekly fintech news roundups.

Every day the Fintech Nexus news team scours the globe for the most important stories of the day to include in our daily newsletter.

Then every Saturday we bring you our weekly news roundup of the top 10 fintech stories of the week with commentary from Peter Renton.

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News Roundup Online Lending

·Mar. 8, 2017

TransUnion Announces Updates to Fraud Prevention Exchange

Loan stacking has reportedly been influencing an increase in default rates for marketplace lenders; TransUnion has reported data on delinquency rates and online fraud; firm announced an expansion of its Fraud Prevention Exchange at LendIt USA to help mitigate online lending fraud and specifically loan stacking. Source

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Fintech News Roundup

·Feb. 2, 2018

Announcements & Releases for February 2, 2018

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Fintech News Roundup

·Apr. 17, 2019

The Power of Fintech May Be Underestimated

The World Economic Forum in collaboration with The European Sting puts forward...

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Fintech News Roundup USA

·Feb. 20, 2020

Patreon Gets into Lending to Creators

Patreon is a popular platform for creators to receive support from their...

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Fintech News Roundup USA

·May. 3, 2018

Goldman Sachs Plans to Open Bitcoin Trading Operation

Goldman Sachs has decided to begin a trading operation to trade bitcoin,...

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Fintech News Roundup USA

·Jan. 5, 2018

Wealthfront’s New Round of Funding

Tiger Global has led Wealthfront’s latest $75 million round; the capital will be used to further build out their Path platform which connects users to their other financial accounts; Wealthfront now has $9 billion under management. Source

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Fintech News Roundup USA

·Apr. 26, 2019

New Mastercard Study Says Fintech Has Significant Potential

A new study by Mastercard and Harvard Business Review reveals that fintech...

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Fintech News Roundup Online Lending

·Mar. 3, 2017

Lend Academy Article: LendIt PitchIt Finalists, Where are they now?

Lend Academy summarizes the activity of past LendIt PitchIt finalists in their article; a LendIt competition for startup businesses, PitchIt provides finalists the opportunity to present their business in front of a panel of judges and an audience of investors with the goal of receiving new venture capital funding for business growth; since 2015, PitchIt has helped support the success of the many finalists detailed in the Lend Academy article. Source

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Fintech News Roundup USA

·Feb. 19, 2019

LendIt Fintech – Oracle Financial Services Small Business Lending Webinar Tomorrow

LendIt Fintech has teamed up with Oracle Financial Services to bring together...

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Fintech News Roundup USA

·Nov. 2, 2017

Robinhood Announces New Web Platform

Brokerage app Robinhood is unveiling a new web based platform; the company currently has over 3 million opened accounts and is growing daily; Business Insider reports that co-founder Baiju Bhatt said, "When people are buying stocks, they are comparison shopping and they want an experience that's built for that."; the company has reached the size of Etrade and are working on building additional features. Source.

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